| Masumi | … |
| Citron | Give me the password! |
| Masumi | ...So annoying. |
| Citron | Man!? |
| Masumi | ...Kai. |
| Citron | Be more excited! |
| Man!? |
| Masumi | Kai! |
| Citron | Come in! |
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| I see everyone's here… And with that we'll establish an emergency headquarters for Tsuzuru's trump. |
| Chikage | It's slump. |
| Itaru | I don't understand why we turned our room into the headquarters. |
| Citron | Because this place feels the most like a secret base! |
| Sakuya | Point taken… |
| Izumi | How's Tsuzuru-kun doing? |
| Masumi | "I have to do it or else I won't finish it; I have to write or else I won't finish it…" |
| That's what he repeatedly mumbles while hitting the keyboard only to erase everything. |
| Izumi | It's a serious problem… |
| Sakuya | While he was stuck on the ending during our Clockwork Heartbeat play, this time he's stuck on the plot outline. |
| Chikage | How about the schedule? |
| Izumi | As for the Showdown Act's event date, we're still in the middle of discussing it so that it won't interfere with the OG members' main occupations… |
| Not to mention our rehearsals and staging will be up in the air if the plot doesn't progress… |
| Sakuya | I wonder if there's anything we can do to help. |
| Itaru | Though in the end, the trouble of a scriptwriter is something that's out of our hands unless Tsuzuru gets out of it himself. |
| Chikage | It's frustrating, huh. |
| Citron | What made him stuck like this, anyways? |
| Izumi | I assume he's probably hung up on what Syu-san pointed out to him. |
| Masumi | The whole, "You're nowhere as good as Hakkaku Ikaruga"? |
| Itaru | He also told him he's done a halfass job as an actor. |
| Citron | The first-gen members are all scallops! |
| Chikage | So they're like sea creatures. |
| Sakuya | I think the correct word should be "callous"! |
| Izumi | Let's have a chat with Tsuzuru-kun and ask him about what he's hung up on. Then, let's try coming up with a way to help him. |
| Masumi-kun, I'll leave Tsuzuru-kun in your care. |
| Masumi | Got it. |
| Citron | Sakuya and I are going to come up with a new change of mice for Tsuzuru! |
| Chikage | Are you planning to use sorcery? |
| Itaru | Pretty sure he means "change of pace." |
| Izumi | (I wonder what they're planning…) |
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| Chikage | ...I figure we should also see if there's anything we can do. |
| Itaru | With your cheat skills, there's one thing you can do: espionage-like work. |
| Chikage | That's too unreasonable. |
| But well, should I try contacting Syu Otomiya? |
| Itaru | Please refrain from doing dangerous things, like that time during Kniroun when you got a hold of someone's weakness and tried to use it against that person. |
| Chikage | How about you? Do you have any otaku's way to help him out? |
| Itaru | Otaku's way… ah. |
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| Tsuzuru | ….uugh...aarrggh…. |
| Izumi | Why don't you take a break? |
| Tsuzuru | Ah… I'm sorry. |
| Izumi | Working at the balcony? |
| Tsuzuru | Well, I ended up making them all worry, after all... |
| Izumi | I see… |
| Did you get stuck because of what Syu-san told you? |
| Tsuzuru | Yea… |
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| Syu | "I acknowledged your flair for screenwriting, but you're just a mediocre actor. You don't have the heightened talent that only a handful of actors have." |
| "If you wanna catch up to Hakkaku-san as a scriptwriter, you shouldn't have any time to do some temporary acting jobs." |
| "Keep putting your ideas down until you feel like vomiting blood and write more." |
| "If you don't do that, your stories ain't no match for the world Hakkaku-san created. Don't drag the actors down with your scripts." |
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| Tsuzuru | While I do want to oppose Otomiya-san's comment, the old members' play is a big deal since it's Hakkaku-san's posthumous work. |
| Since this is my first and last chance competing with Hakkaku-san, I end up at a loss not knowing how I should fight him. |
| I can't say that my works for both RomiJuli and Sky Pirates were merely a little bit inspired by the first gen’s--Hakkaku-san's works. |
| Hakkaku-san, the first-gen scriptwriter, is someone whom I admire and respect. |
| But in the end, the one who is taking responsibility for MANKAI Company's future is myself. |
| That's why I don't want to lose this match, for both my and everyone's sake. |
| But the more I think about it, the more I push myself. In the end, I can't decide what kind of story I should write. |
| No matter how many things I write, I don't think it's good. I can't accept it. |
| Izumi | ...In that case, what you need right now are indeed new inputs and a change of pace. Your view of the world must have gotten narrow. |
| Everyone in the Spring Troupe is also coming up with lots of things, apparently. |
| Tsuzuru | I can't help but have a bad feeling about what kind of things Citron-san is trying to pull. |
| I appreciate it, though. |
| I've read a lot of materials about the Genpei War over and over again, but I can't deny that I can't write anything even when I'm in front of my PC. |
| I'm gonna look for inputs the whole day tomorrow. |
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| (Input, input…) |
| (Let's have breakfast first for now.) |
| Itaru | Morning. |
| Tsuzuru | Huh? Good morning. |
| (It's so unusual for Itaru-san to wake up this early on a holiday. He usually plays games until morning and sleeps until noon…) |
| That's rare of you to be awake at this time. Is something up? |
| Itaru | I slept early last night. |
| Tsuzuru | Heh, I see. |
| (Shall I make bacon and egg…) |
| Itaru | … |
| Tsuzuru | ? |
| (I can feel a set of eyes on me somehow.) |
| Itaru | What's your plan today? |
| Tsuzuru | Since today is a holiday, I'm thinking of watching any works related to the Genpei War. Do you have any game or anime recommendations? |
| Itaru | I have one, a game. |
| Tsuzuru | Then, can you… |
| Itaru | Catch. |
| Tsuzuru | A controller… I expected no less from you, always well-prepared when it comes to games. |
